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04/14/2008: "American presidents often on drugs"

Central to Owen's account is the idea that the administration of drugs to Kennedy for these various ailments was out of control.

In particular, without the knowledge of his other doctors and at the same time as they were giving him other drugs, he was being tended to by Max Jacobson, a doctor known as "Dr Feelgood" because of his reputation as a provider of amphetamines and pep pills. In time Jacobson's drug treatment became almost a recreational drug for Kennedy. Jacobson was later struck off.

Owen shows that is quite likely that Dr Feelgood, specially flown to Vienna, injected Kennedy with intravenous amphetamine just before he met Khrushchev.

[ Kennedy was just enjoying his "freedom." Maybe now they prescribe the drugs to keep them docile while oligarchs run the USA. ]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/04/the-drug-abuse.html